Nathaniel Fiennes

Nathaniel Fiennes (1608-16 December 1669) was a Parliamentarian general during the English Civil War.

Biography
Nathaniel Fiennes was born in Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, England in 1608, and he was admitted to Oxford in 1624. During his travels abroad, including in heavily-Calvinist Switzerland, he became a devout Puritan and opposed William Laud's archbishopric. Despite being MP for Banbury, he supported the Covenanters in their struggle against King Charles I of England, and he took a leading role in the Parliamentarian cause before and during the English Civil War. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Powick Bridge and the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, but, when he surrendered Bristol to the Cavaliers in 1643, he was sentenced to death for cowardice before being pardoned. He was a victim of Pride's Purge due to his support for compromise with King Charles, but he affiliated himself with Oliver Cromwell's Independent Puritans in opposition to the Presbyterian faction. He served as an MP for Oxfordshire in 1654 and for Oxford University in 1656, and he became an active supporter of the republican cause during the 1650s. He died in 1669 at the age of 61.